Chapter 1. Microsoft .NET Framework

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	Migrating to .NET: A Pragmatic Path to Visual Basic .NET, Visual C++ .NET, and ASP.NET By Dhananjay  Katre, Prashant  Halari, Narayana  Rao  Surapaneni, Manu  Gupta, Meghana  Deshpande
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Microsoft .NET has been considered a paradigm shift in the world of Web application development and deployment. Web services are being envisioned as the next big step in Internet and Internet technology. Microsoft .NET simplifies the development of Web services; in fact, development of Web services has been one of the major design goals behind .NET. Let's understand what Microsoft .NET Framework is and what benefits it gives to the application developer in terms of development efforts and platforms. This chapter gives an introduction to the .NET Framework, and it gives the reader an overview of the Common Language Runtime (CLR), Common Type System (CTS), and Common Language Specification (CLS). The chapter also gives an overview of the .NET Framework class library.

There are many books that highlight the importance of .NET over earlier technologies. Hence, in this chapter rather than listing all the features of .NET in detail, we emphasize those key aspects of .NET that need to be considered while planning for migration of existing applications to .NET. In this book we have included as many code snippets as possible, highlighting the syntactical differences between the languages being discussed and then supplying workarounds wherever feasible .

One of the main objectives of this chapter is to make the reader aware of the steps that must be followed while migrating any application from one technology to another.

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